Species Elizabethkingia anophelis

Name: Elizabethkingia anophelis Kämpfer et al. 2011

Category, proposed as: species, sp. nov.

Etymology: a.no’phe.lis. N.L. gen. masc. n. anophelis, of/from a mosquito of the genus Anopheles, as the type strain was isolated from the midgut of Anopheles gambiae

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: e-li-za-be-T^HKIN-gi-a a-NO-p^he-lis, feminine

Type strain: 2.5; 8.26; CCM 7804; CCUG 60038; NCTC 13869; R26

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EF426425 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kampfer P, Matthews H, Glaeser SP, Martin K, Lodders N, Faye I. Elizabethkingia anophelis sp. nov., isolated from the midgut of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2670-2675. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:261-262.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 2

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Elizabethkingia endophytica Kämpfer et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Elizabethkingia anophelis subsp. endophytica (Kämpfer et al. 2015) García-López et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, distinct rank

• Emendations:
  • Kämpfer et al. 2015 Kampfer P, Busse HJ, McInroy JA, Glaeser SP. Elizabethkingia endophytica sp. nov., isolated from Zea mays and emended description of Elizabethkingia anophelisKampfer et al. 2011. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2187-2193. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3233-3234.
  • Doijad et al. 2016 Doijad S, Ghosh H, Glaeser S, Kampfer P, Chakraborty T. Taxonomic reassessment of the genus Elizabethkingia using whole-genome sequencing: Elizabethkingia endophytica Kampfer et al. 2015 is a later subjective synonym of Elizabethkingia anophelis Kampfer et al. 2011. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4555-4559. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:179-182.
    Notes:
    • 🫂 Emendation accompanied by a proposal regarding the synonymy of the species.
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.
  • Nicholson et al. 2018 Nicholson AC, Gulvik CA, Whitney AM, Humrighouse BW, Graziano J, Emery B, Bell M, Loparev V, Juieng P, Gartin J, et al. Revisiting the taxonomy of the genus Elizabethkingia using whole-genome sequencing, optical mapping, and MALDI-TOF, along with proposal of three novel Elizabethkingia species: Elizabethkingia bruuniana sp. nov., Elizabethkingia ursingii sp. nov., and Elizabethkingia occulta sp. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2018; 111:55-72. 🇺🇸 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 28. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2137-2138.

• Notes:
  • ⏰ According to Doijad et al. (2016), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Elizabethkingia endophytica Kämpfer et al. 2015. Publication: Doijad S, Ghosh H, Glaeser S, Kampfer P, Chakraborty T. Taxonomic reassessment of the genus Elizabethkingia using whole-genome sequencing: Elizabethkingia endophytica Kampfer et al. 2015 is a later subjective synonym of Elizabethkingia anophelis Kampfer et al. 2011. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4555-4559. 🇩🇪
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 167 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
  • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the species itself.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established human pathogen. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology (Reading) 2022; 168:0. 🇬🇧
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. 🇩🇪
  • 🧍 In the paper by Kämpfer et al. 2011, the GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain is erroneously cited as EF426434. — Kämpfer P. Personal communication, 2012-01-25.
  • 🧍 The accession number EF426425 is the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the strain 2.5. In the file https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/EF426425, a note specifies that this sequence is identical to the sequence of the strain R26 (type strain of Elizabethkingia anophelis.). Publication: Erratum. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2012; 62:1016. 🇩🇪

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Elizabethkingia anophelis subsp. anophelis (Kämpfer et al. 2011) García-López et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	synonym of its species
    Elizabethkingia anophelis subsp. endophytica (Kämpfer et al. 2015) García-López et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Elizabethkingia Kim et al. 2005

Assigned by: Kampfer P, Matthews H, Glaeser SP, Martin K, Lodders N, Faye I. Elizabethkingia anophelis sp. nov., isolated from the midgut of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2670-2675. 🇩🇪

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://doi.org/10.83108/rn.789536Copy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 789536